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Welcome to the Heart of Warwickshire Branch of the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA). This site has information about our branch, including contact details, downloadable copies of the branch magazine, the “Beer and Ragged Staff“, our local pubs and breweries and our annual beer & cider festival.

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Voting has now closed for the 2024 Pub Of The Year and it was a very close result this year. The certificates will be issued to the winning pubs on Thursday 21 March and posted here shortly after that.


Click above for information on purchasing the 2024 Good Beer Guide
Click above for the new Good Beer Guide webapp

2024 Harbury Beer & Cider Festival

Planning is well underway for the 2024 Harbury Beer Festival, with 31 beers, mostly from Northamptonshire plus a few from local breweries. Click on the image to go to our Festival Page for full details including beer and cider lists, admission charges and your chance to save by buying advance tickets. Tickets are now on sale.


Forthcoming Local Events (non-CAMRA)

Oz Clarke & Armonico: ALE-lelujah

Join Britain’s best-loved booze brain on a Quest for the Holy Ale. Oz Clarke returns for another evening of music, mayhem and mild malt liquor. Mixing in a four thousand year-old Hymn to the Goddess of Beer, with Purcell’s‘ Drunken Poet’, Bach, Weelkes and some Hopular Hits of the Beerhalle, Oz will assiduously guide you from bar to bar. This programme will suit all palates, from part-time tipplers and querulous quaffers, to the upper echelons of the inebriati.

Date: Thursday 23 May 2024, 7.30pm
Location: The Pump Rooms, Leamington Spa
Price: £29.50 to include two glasses of beer.

Click here for more details and to purchase tickets.


Branch News


Branch Christmas Dinner

Our Christmas Dinner was held on 8 December 2023 at the Old Fourpenny Shop Pub in Warwick, where a great time was had by all. A few photos are shown below (click on the image for a larger version).


2023 Harbury Beer Festival

The 2023 Harbury Beer Festival was a great success. Click here to see the awards and other information.


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